The victory was a 12th Group One win for stallion Lonhro and the champion sire's 81st stakes success.

The victory was a third in four starts for Lyre, coming off her success in the Blue Diamond Prelude for Fillies, with trainer Freedman saying she came on nicely from that run.

"She really had made that necessary couple of length improvement," he said post-race.

"It's more about not losing them backwards and she clearly didn't go backwards, she probably went on with it and was great today.

"The ride worked out very well," he added. "She was probably further back than I wanted but as they say, all's well that ends well."

Freedman said the invitation to take some yearlings from Godolphin had been a pleasant surprise.

"They spoke to me, I think it was about the middle of last year and they said they were going to send me some yearlings, which was a bit out of the blue.

"I was thrilled to get them. I didn't have huge numbers. So they sent me six. Unfortunately we lost one that had a problem and couldn't be saved, so we've only got the five and she's the only one we've run so far.

"She's a homebred and they've got a great system and she came to us as they all did in beautiful condition and beautifully educated and it was just a case of developing her and keep improving into this race."